The study of single cases, as a vehicle for the study of a multiplicity of diverse theoretical, cultural, and clinical factors, promises a client the possibility of an individualized treatment intervention. This seminar combines didactic overviews with clinical cases. The seminar will consider diagnoses as the result of structural relations among psychical or subjective structures, biological symptoms, and environmental traumas. It will explore the standard and non-standard or singular frame for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Topics will include the overall length, cost, and effectiveness of the treatment, the short and variable length session, the frequency of sessions, the use of the couch or chair, and an understanding of free association that includes the active associative focus on key signifiers as reflected in Freud’s practice of dream analysis. The seminar will also address the question of psychoanalytic practice with ethnic and bilingual clients.
Faculty: Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Time: Wednesdays,
Dates: Part I: Sept 14, 28; Oct 5, 19; Nov 2, 16; Dec 7
Part II: Jan 11, 25; Feb 1, 15; Mar 1, 15,
29; Apr 12, 26; May 10, 24
Location: 2820 Adeline, Berkeley
Fee: $40 per session, including CE credits
*Registration is required by
September 1st for Part I and Jan 1st for Part II
In this course, we will use clinical illustrations to introduce concepts
in Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Participants will be able to better understand
ideas that are often left to metapsychological ponderings. Clinical cases will
be presented in every meeting and clinical interventions will be
discussed. The following theoretical concepts will be introduced through
the clinical material: the role of the signifier, differentiating the real, the
imaginary and the symbolic, symbolic and imaginary castration, lack and object
a, transference and regression, gender differences, neurotic and perverse
structures, as well as generational and familial myths.
Faculty: Philippe Gendrault, Ph.D. and Lara
Guille, Psy.D.
Time: Mondays,
Dates: Sept 12, 26; Oct 10, 24; Nov 7,
21; Dec 5
Location:
Fee: $20 per session, including CE
credits
Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII, On Transference
This seminar will entail a
close reading of Lacan's Seminar VIII on Transference (1960-1961). Since
this seminar is not yet officially released in English, the text will be Cormac
Gallagher's translation (available at karnacbooks.com) from the unedited French
manuscripts. The seminar will be an opportunity to discuss Lacan's take on
this key psychoanalytic concept, his original contribution in the elaboration
of the theory, and how he differs from the interpretations and practice of
other psychoanalytic schools.
Faculty: Marcelo
Estrada, M.A.
Time: Sundays,
Dates: February 26, March 12, 26, April 9, 23, May 14, 28,
June 11, 25
Location: 2237
Carleton, Berkeley. Please check the website (www.lacan.org)
for updated information.
Fee: $120
The Phases/Faces of Oedipus in Contemporary Culture and the Question of Sex and Gender
This seminar will explore how the transformations of masculinity and
femininity in contemporary
males and females are related to versions of childhood Oedipal structure.
It will begin by
exploring Oedipus according to the classical pre and post distinction and
the Lacanian notion of
Oedipus in three phases. Versions/representations of the mother and father
in Oedipus lead to different manifestations of sexuality and of the differences
between the sexes. Clinical material will illustrate the fantasies and theories
that articulate and define what is a man and what is a woman for different
subjects. These questions will be explored in relationship to development,
psychopathology, and to the ethical position of the analyst in clinical practice.
Date:
Time: 9am-1pm (3.5
hours CE)
Location:
Fee: $60, $70 with
CE credits
Moderator: Maureen Katz, M.D.
Presentor: Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Discussants: Beatrice
Patsalides, Ph.D. and Abbot Bronstein, Ph.D.
In this third seminar on Islam, we will review the multiple understandings of what is called “gender-sexuality” in Islam. We will use some clinical vignettes of Muslim and non-Muslim patients to pose the question, with Lacan, of the phallic order and of feminine sexualities in Western and Arab cultures.
Faculty: Andre Patsalides, Ph.D
Date:
Time:
Location: TBA. Please check the website (www.lacan.org) for updated information.
Fee: $60, $70 with CE credits
*Preregistration is required,
2 weeks in advance of course date.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Supervision*
Psychoanalysis differs from a
tradition of transmitting knowledge or technical know-how through the exclusive
mediums of teaching and learning various kinds of information. This seminar
will explore how the knowing of the unconscious within a psychoanalytic
organization is founded on four pillars: a personal analysis, the control
analysis or supervised practice of analysis, and the self-authorization of the
analyst (by the unconscious subject and the symptom) within the context of the
psychoanalytic community.
Faculty: Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Date:
Time:
Location: 2820 Adeline, Berkeley
Fee: $100, $135 with CE credits
*Preregistration is required,
2 weeks in advance of course date.
Continuing Education
Credit
The Lacanian School of
Psychoanalysis is an approved provider of continuing education for Clinical
Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists (BBS Provider Number
PCE-638). Continuing education credits are given to Psychologists at the
completion of the course. The number of CE units is equal to the number of
hours listed for each course. Any course of less than 8 hours duration requires
100% attendance, while any course of 8 hours or more requires 80% attendance
and make-up work (with prior instructor approval) for the missing class(es).
This seminar will examine the
suitability of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for Latinos and
other underserved ethnic groups. It will offer a critique of the criteria of
“analyzability” and of the notion of a “good candidate for psychotherapy”
stemming from post-Freudian classical psychoanalysis, psychotherapy outcome
research, and minority mental health literature. Ethnic minorities are
perfectly capable of self-disclosure given a different understanding of both
the frame for treatment and the nature of insight and interpretation. The
ethnic client’s difficulty with self-disclosure can be attributed to the
clinician's lack of understanding of the social-cultural and class dimensions
of his/her own unconscious subjectivity.
Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Saturday, December 10,
The Psychotherapy Institute,
$65 with CE credits
Please check our website
for updates on course offerings at www.lacan.org
Instructors
Abbot Bronstein,
Ph.D.
Faculty and
Member, SFPI&S; Chair of Special Programs Committee, SFPI&S; Personal
and Supervising Analyst at PINC and IPS (both provisional institutes of the
IPA).
Marcelo Estrada, M.A.
Founding Member, Faculty and
Scholar of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.
Philippe Gendrault, Ph.D.
Candidate of the Lacanian
School of Psychoanalysis; Private practice in
Lara Guille, Psy.D.
Member of the Lacanian School
of Psychoanalysis; Faculty at St. Mary’s Medical Center; Allied Health
Professional Staff at CPMC; Private practice in San Francisco.
Maureen Katz, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF; Faculty and Member, SFPI&S;
Co-Chair,
Raul Moncayo, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst and Faculty of
the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis; Training Director of Mission Mental
Health, San Francisco; Adjunct Faculty of the California School of Professional
Psychology; Private practice in Berkeley.
Andre Patsalides,
Ph.D.
Founding Member,
Psychoanalyst and Faculty of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis; Member of
the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis, Brussels; Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Dr. Patsalides
received his psychoanalytic training in Brussels and with J. Lacan in Paris.
Beatrice Patsalides, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst and Faculty of
the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis; Senior Clinical Consultant at Survivors
International, San Francisco; Faculty at PINC.
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